The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-11-26
THE HOUSEKEEPER.
For Farmers Ufres.

Farmers wives are probably as much in
need OF money as any other class of
women. To such, then the discovery Of
any way of adding to their pin money is
desirable discovery. While not new
thing, planting small fruits is doubtless
new to a great many women who have
abundant opportunity to try it. That it is
fully feasible to great many needs only
trial to prove. woman writes in the
Colorado Farmer on the subject as below:
Evidently the thing most needed now by
women lis to learn how to be healthy,
strong, good tempered, and helpful edu-
eating not only the brain, but also the
whole being as well. All women cannot
marry and be the helpless idol of an in
dulgent husband. Some will not marry,
and many who do must be willing help
meet.
Outdoor work is not to be despised by
women, for it is positively necessary to
health and happiness. OF all the pursuits
now followed by woman there is perhaps
no other that offers more or greater in
ducements, or for which she is naturally
better qualified, than the growing of small
fruits
There is no more money making crop
than fruit when rightly managed, and
strawberries, raspberries, goosebcrries,
currants, and grapes can each be made to
yield a rich harvest. Only a small plot Of
ground is necessary for beginning, in
creasing the area as means are afforded.
Almost any woman can do much of the
work herself, even though not very strong.
She can set the plants and gather the fruit
and get it ready for market. Much de-
ponds on the way it is prepared.
If, III addition to raising fine berries,
they are set Off to advantage by careful
packing and a tasteful arrangement of
green leaves, they will sell more readily.
When berries are cheap she can with her
own hands make them into jams, Jellies,
marmalade, etc., to be sold later, even if
sold at very small profit.
Women do not despise the minutest
matters, and the study of the botany of
plants, of bird, and insects injurious and
otherwise will all receive their careful at
tention.
The example we have had of women
who have tried the experiment show that
they are eminently successful raising the
finest fruit, arranging it in the most taste
full manner, and receiving the highest
market price for their products.
The net profits from the sale of small
fruits by two young ladies in California
last year, one of whom was consumptve
when she began, amounted to the hand
some sum of $4,000.
the experiment, and beside accommodating
fortune, they have what is better, a COM
Portable home of their own and complete
restoration to health.
The growing of small fruits on small
scale is especially recommended to those
married women who can obtain small
plot of ground for the purpose, who feel
the desire SO common among women for
pecuniary independence. To the growing
of small fruits might be added a few
stands of bees, which almost any woman
can care for, thus adding to her income
and placing her in a position to realize
comparative independence.
Hinfs to Eouseheepers
GOOD fresh buttermilk made from sweet
cream is a serviceable drink in diabetes.
SALT and vinegar. applied hot, are good
for cleaning brass, which should afterward
be polished with fine ashes.
THE best thing to polish eye glasses and
spectacles with is bit of newspaper.
Moisten the glasses and rub dry.
To TEST nutmegs, prick them with a
pin, and if they are good the oil will in
stantly spread around the puncture.
YELLOW soap and whiting if mixed to-
gether with little water into a thick paste
will stop a leak as etfectually as will
solder.
NEVER use I've to clean tin; it will soon
spoil it; make it clean with soap and water
and rub with whiting, and it will look well
and last longer.
A REFRESHING and nourishing drink for
an invalid: Stir the yellow of an egg into
glass of lemonade. If this is too rich
use more lemonade and drink part at
time.
To MAKE glossy starch melt together
one ounce white wax and two ounces
spermaceti Make starch, and to a good
sized painful add lump of the mixture
about the size of pea.
For earache take bit of cotton batting,
put upon it a pinch of black pepper gather
it up and tie; dip it in sweet oil and insert
in the ear. Put flannel bandage over the
head to keep it warm. 1t will give imme-
diate relief.
ANY kind of bath, or any other pro-
cess that will produce a general perspira-
ton, and thus bring about a reaction, will
cure a cold. Simply inhaling fresh air
largely, by deep inspiration, is sufficient to
nip an incipient cold in the bud.
A DAMP broom is often an excellent
thing with which 10 sweep a carpet after
the first dirt has been removed, but wet
broom is a very bad one. If dirt and
water make mud, wet broom will be the
means to spread that compound wherever
it travels.